Lightshot Privacy Tools

Patches and workarounds to make Lightshot less spyware-like.

Removing Screenshot Analytics

Prevent lightshot from recording excessive meta information about your screenshots.

macOS

Lightshot sends what appears to be screen coordinate data to a Google Analytics endpoint every time you take a screenshot. The program in this repo will patch your Lightshot install so that it no longer contacts the GA domain.

sudo ./lightshot-remove-analytics-mac

Please note that since this app is from the Mac App Store, making changes like we just did will require us to remove existing codesignatures to launch the app again. I've included an open source program called "unsign" in this repository, which will allow us to do the following:

sudo ./unsign /Applications/Lightshot\ Screenshot.app/Contents/MacOS/Lightshot\ Screenshot /Applications/Lightshot\ Screenshot.app/Contents/MacOS/Lightshot\ Screenshot

Alternatively, if you're on or above macOS 10.15.x and also have the Xcode CLI tools installed (xcode-select --install), you can use:

codesign --remove-signature /Applications/Lightshot\ Screenshot.app/

Windows

Lightshot on Windows does not record analytics to the same extent as it does on macOS.

Custom upload server

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